It Looks Like Discord Will Soon Be Less Memory-Hungry
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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously heavy on system resources, and Discord is now moving its desktop app fully to Rust - a modern programming language designed for speed and memory safety. "We've been early adopters of […]
Discord is switching to a new desktop application written in Rust. The early Windows version, called Phoenix, used 290 MB of RAM, marking the end of the Electron era.
Discord is preparing a major technical overhaul of its application: messaging will abandon Electron and React Native in favour of an architecture entirely based on Rust, a programming language renowned for its performance and RAM management. A first version of Windows already displays a ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App Store) The Disco…
Discord Is Ditching Electron For Rust
Discord is replacing Electron with a desktop client built fully in Rust, which the company says should significantly reduce the app's notoriously high resource usage while improving performance and memory safety. "We've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and e...
Discord Technology Director, Stanislav Vishnevskiy, announced native customer in Rust, with Electron end and tests planned soon
It looks like Discord will soon be less memory-hungry
Discord is ditching Electron – A full Rust rewrite is in the works Discord Co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy confirmed that Discord is moving away from Electron and rewriting its app in Rust, with GPUI handling the desktop interface. While that sentence might not mean much to most Discord users, it is a big deal, especially if […]
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